Auto rickshaw driver arrested for sexual harassment

Chennai: A 54-year-old autorickshaw driver was arrested by Teynampet police for sexually harassing a 27-year-old woman passenger on Tuesday. On Tuesday evening, the woman, hailing from Arunachal Pradesh, boarded the auto of V Srinivasa Rao, 54, of Royapettah, to travel from Mylapore to Teynampet.

At the end of the trip, when she was getting out of the vehicle, Srinivasa Rao allegedly kissed her hand. Based on her complaint, the police arrested him, and he was later remanded in judicial custody.

Selvaraj Arunachalam, widely known as Crime Selvaraj, is a veteran journalist with over 31 years of experience in crime reporting across leading Tamil and English newspapers. He has covered historic events, including the deaths of former Tamil Nadu Chief Ministers Jayalalithaa and M. Karunanidhi, the IPL betting scam, and the Kanchi Seer Sankararaman murder case. A familiar face in the digital space, he has given more than 500 interviews across 30 YouTube channels, with millions of views on social media. He has also featured in international documentaries on Netflix and Bloomberg, speaking on high-profile cases such as idol smuggler Subhash Kapoor and conman Sukesh Chandrasekar. Beyond journalism, he has acted in three films including the Tamil movie DNA, trained over 200 budding journalists, directed short films, and authored the English crime-poetry collection Chilled Love. His contributions have earned him the TOI Scribe Award and the Humanitarian Award from former Governor Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan.